Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-24
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
The Missouri Pacific Express Cattle
Trains Receiving the Praises OF
Fort Worth StOckmen.
what Agent Andrews of the Bureau OF
Animal Industry Has TO Say
About Quarantine.

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Animal Industry Has TO Say
About Quarantine.
Five lots of sheep were sold to local
buyers Saturday.
Forty-elght head of fine beef cattle
were sold to one local butcher Saturday.
Winfield Scott, one of the solid cattle
meg of the county and former citizen OF
Fort Worth, is here talking business.
Sixty car loads of cattle will go out
over the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe to-
3sy for Indian Territory points.
lot Smvth's shipment of fat cattle on
me through fast freight to Chicago will
-esch their destination tomorrow.
Horsemen say buyers viii begin to
Dour in this week. Fort Worth is ready
for them with fne stocks of horses on
hand.
NIX. Stewart, representing the Fish &
Keck Company, live stock commission
merchants of Kansas City, is in Fort
Worth.
Four stockmen now in the city are here
10 buy II 900 head of stock cattle. They
have closed trades for 2600 head of this
number.
J.F. Shepherd, western agent of the
National Stock Yards at st. Louis, who
makes Fort Worth his Texas headquart-
ers, is in the city.
Colonel r. E. Maddox says buyers of
lattle and horses are coming in rapidly,
snd that to day will see great activity in
i've stock circles.
il. Swearingen of Gregory, Cooley &
CO., Chicago, is in Fort Worth, and has
decided to make Fort Worth his perma-
uent headquarters.
Tomorrow and Wednesday the Texas
gnd Pacific will bring to Fort Worth
eighty car loads of cattle from Colo
RADIO City and seventy from Big Springs
and Midland.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe is
erecting stock pens with five chutes north
u the city, on George Strohl's place. Mr..
~-ronl gave the company the land on
which TO build.
The M0beetie Panhandle says the gen
eral roundup commenced at the west
end of the Hansford range on May 20 and
will work down the river to the west end
Of the Bar c range, where it will di-
vide and work down Wolf creek and Can
sdiRn river.
Thorp Andrews, agent of the Bureau of
Animal Industry, will leave in few days
for Colorado TO observe the enforce
ment of the quarantine laws OF that
state against Texas cattle. He
says there is determination on the part
Of Texas csttIemen to observe strictly
ne Colorado quarantine laws, for that
state, unlike Kansas, has not placed 8
complete embargo on Texas cattle. He
1as forwarded to the Colorado officials
detailed statement in regard to- the HOO
cars of cattle recently shipped from Fort
Worth TO al points on the road. A number
# these cattle are grazing in the Territory
now, and when the seventy-fVe days re-
CURED by Colorado quarantine have
passed the cattle will enter that state
Mr. Andrews says that some counties in
lie state still need rain, but they are in
the extreme southwest and grass in that
section is g complete failure. Cattle are
generally healthy, the trail is open and
everything is moving smoothly.
Cattlemen are delighted with the result
Of the first fast through cattle train over
the Missouri Pacific from Fort Worth to
s.. Louis ard Chicago. This pioneer
train was loaded by Jot Smyth OF Grand
new, and comprised sixteen carloads.
They were unloaded, fed and watered at
Che,Cpa, making stop of twelve hours,
10 st. Louis end again I'M
osded and watered A telegram
wss received in Fort Worth yesterday
from President Knox of the National
stock Yards in East St Louis stating that
me cattle had reached there in fine shape,
not one dead or crippled, and that they
would be in Chicago this morning, lust
three and half DAYS from the time they
eft Fort Worth. Mr.. Newman and the
Missouri Pacific are receiving unlimited
praise from the stockmen of this city who
say this move is of the greatest possible
benefit to the stock interests. One en-
thusiastic stockman said yesterday: "Tell
them in THE GAZETTE that the old relia-
Ole Missouri Pacific is in the lead as
usual and she has the machinery to do
The same work as that for Jot Smyth
every day in the year and several
trains day" Truly, the Missouri Pacific
lss by its enterprise and fine manage
ment placed the cattlemen of the city of
Fort Worth next door to st. Louis and
Chicago. Hereafter, cattle leaving Fort
Worth in fat condition will reach ST.
Louis snd Chicago in the same state.
Coming in Slowly.
special to the Gazette.